It’s been quite a week. On Monday, February 3, 2025 when I called in to the Berkeley Council’s Land Use, Housing & Economic Development Committee to make a non-agenda comment, I said I had been ...

Here’s an interesting four-part take on Berkeley politics which ran on San Francisco’s 48hills.org site. The author, Zelda Bronstein, is a Berkeley resident, a former Berkeley planning commissioner ...

Note the opportunity to see the Bike Plan and the plan for three new Public Restrooms. City Council Agenda for February 25, 2025 is available for comment. Use link to see agenda or go to the bottom of ...

At 9 am is Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Unit 3. From 10 am – 2 pm is the Berkeley Bike Plan Pop-up at Ashby Flea Market From 10 am – 12 pm is the Family Bird Walk At 12:30 pm is the Swim ...

At 9:30 am Together Wee Play for children four and under. At 10 am the Council Budget Committee meets in the hybrid format. At 7 pm the Parks, Recreation and Waterfront Commission meets in person. At ...

n one of Donald Trump’s first acts in office, he stripped away protections for schools, hospitals, and places of worship from immigration enforcement. These were once safe spaces where people could ...

Donald Trumps third week in the oval office was characterized by three major failures: tariffs, foreign policy, and negative court orders. The number of Trump executive orders diminished as Trump ...

Here is a quote I will probably keep coming back to in these uncertain times, “Once you sow ethnic hatred in this country you harvest a willingness among your supporters to be done with democratic ...

The Supreme Court has given local governments the green light to do anything to homeless people, and this includes incarceration. Some people can survive incarceration, and some can't. It is never ...

On Sunday, January 19, 2025, soprano Julia Bullock joined with London’s Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in a concert of Baroque music at Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall. This event featured Julia ...